Woman sues NYC for $10 million claiming her interest in LA Clippers was diagnosed as paranoid behavior: Report

A woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit after claiming she was held against her will held by a New York City psychiatric hospital for paranoid thoughts just because she was checking up on the Los Angeles Clippers and the Donald Sterling situation.

Dare Matthews is suing the city after the 24-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital after a spat with two workers at her apartment building and then kept her in the infamous loony bin for six days after doctors classified her perceived obsession with the NBA team as paranoid and that she was suffering a behavioral disorder.

But according to the New York Daily News, Matthews claims she was only kept in the facility because she wanted to read the latest news on her cellphone about the Clippers and the downfall of the team's former owner.

According to court papers, police were called to the apartment block on West 33rd Street after two workers there called 911. Matthews, who has attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, was then taken to Bellevue by the emergency services.

She said that doctors used her love of the NBA team against her after she wanted to read updates on her team but wasn't allowed to check her cellphone.

Her attorney Rose Weber told the New York Daily News: "Doctors decided she thought the Clippers were somehow controlling her thoughts and that her Twitter was part of it.

"They took every innocent thing and made it into a crazy symptom."

Matthews claims she was medicated during the stay and that her Twitter account had been hacked.

One doctor wrote that Matthews was “internally stimulated and smiling inappropriately’ when in fact the television was on and plaintiff was watching it and was laughing at ‘The Jerry Springer show,’” the suit reads.

Wow. That just plain nuts.

The hospital has declined to comment due to patient privacy while a city law spokesman said the suit would be reviewed.

Sterling's ownership of the Clippers made headlines last year after he appeared to make racist remarks and was then banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million.

Fair warning Knicks fans: Keep those delusional playoff thoughts to yourselves — or the padded room awaits.

Judge orders V. Stiviano to return $2.6 million back to Donald Sterling’s wife: Report

A Los Angeles judge ruled that the wife of the former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is owed $2.6 million by V. Stiviano — the woman who was at the center of Sterling's NBA scandal which forced the ex-owner out of the league.

On Tuesday, Judge Richard Fruin Jr. awarded Shelly Sterling most of the nearly $3 million she had sought in a lawsuit against the young beauty her husband had showered with gifts.

Sterling had claimed that money used to buy V. Stiviano a house, luxury cars and stocks was her community property.

"Shelly is thrilled with the decision," attorney Pierce O'Donnell said. "This is certainly a victory for the Sterling family whose funds were dissipated by Donald to lavish millions of dollars of gifts on a conniving mistress."

Stiviano’s lawyer had argued the gifts were made when Donald and Shelly Sterling were separated and that Shelly Sterling couldn’t seek them from a third party.

The ruling comes nearly a year after Stiviano’s recording of Donald Sterling making racially offensive remarks forced him to sell the NBA team.

Shelly Sterling’s lawyers used other recordings to show he bought Stiviano a house, a $240,000 Ferrari and treated her to extravagant shopping sprees.

In the recordings on Stiviano’s iPhone, she and the 80-year-old billionaire are heard discussing how to shield the gifts from his wife.

“The truth is that everything that I have, you’ve given me from your heart without me begging or asking or throwing myself all over you,” Stiviano said in a clip played in court.

During the course of their 2 1/2 years together, Sterling gave her the Ferrari, a Bentley and a Range Rover, and paid the bulk of a $1.8 million duplex.

Sterling testified that he paid for the entire house, though Stiviano said she had contributed an unknown amount of money given to her in small bills by family members that she saved in a bedroom drawer.

Donald Sterling said Stiviano hadn’t contributed “50 cents” to the house and, noting that Stiviano is part black and Hispanic, said she illegally got her name inserted into escrow documents by befriending Hispanic bank and escrow employees.

Shelly Sterling filed the suit against Stiviano about a month before the recording of Donald Sterling telling Stiviano not to associate with black people created an uproar and led the NBA to ban him for life and fine him $2.5 million.

Man charged with assault and hate crime on V. Stiviano: Report (PHOTOS)

Photographs which V. Stiviano claims are proof she was assaulted in New York City over the weekend have been released on the same day a New York man was charged with attacking the tape-recording lady-friend of disgraced LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

The graphic images obtained by MailOnline from her attorney, Mac Nehoray, show the extensive bruising and swelling across the right side of Stiviano's usually visor-covered face that she suffered during the reported attack.

In one photograph, taken after Sunday's alleged assault outside the Gansevoort Hotel, a stunned looking Stiviano has what appears to be a huge reddish mark going from her eye down to her chin.

In the other, which was presumably taken the day after, Stiviano's face seems to be painfully swollen, especially around her cheek.

Even though she is wearing make-up in the photograph, the effects of the alleged attack appear to be visible.

Nehoray said Stiviano had been examined by a doctor after the incident, and found her to be "banged up but OK."

These images were released on the same day that 40-year-old Dominick Diorio was arrested at his home on Long Island, and charged with assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and harassment for punching Stiviano in the face outside the hotel on Sunday.

He and another man allegedly hurled racist comments at Stiviano during the attack, including the N-word, after she left a restaurant with friends in the trendy neighborhood. The second man has not been arrested.

They apparently recognized Stiviano from her role in the recent NBA race scandal, which caused Sterling to sell the Clippers after she recorded him making racist comments about black people.

New York Police Department Detective Brian Sessa told reporters that the investigation is still ongoing.

Shelly Sterling brands NBA as sexist for decision to take her Clippers shares away (VIDEO)

Shelly Sterling fired back at the NBA — for a decision to take away her shares of the Los Angeles Clippers — by branding the league as sexist and hinting that the NBA has its own sort of discriminatory issues.

The wife of Donald Sterling — the banned owner of the team — alluded to the S-word during an interview with the  Today show to describe how she is being forced to give up her 50-percent stake in the club by the league.

The NBA issued a statement on Sunday saying her shares would be forfeited if team owners voted to force her disgraced husband — who was recorded making racial slurs two weeks ago — to sell.

Asked what she thought of the NBA's decision and the perceived double-standard, Sterling replied:

"Would an owner's wife say the same thing and would the owner be asked to leave the NBA?" she asked back in the interview Tuesday morning. "Or would they say, 'Ah she's only the wife?'"

"Why am I the victim, when he's the perpetrator? If somebody kills somebody does the wife have to stand trial too?" she said to host Savannah Guthrie.

Sterling said she was shocked when she watched her husband's latest interview, in which he sparked more controversy by saying Magic Johnson had done nothing to help the African-American community.

He made a series of disparaging remarks about Johnson's HIV-positive status — mistakenly saying he had AIDS — dismissing his work in charity and business and saying he's not a proper role model.

Hours after Shelly Sterling said she would fight to keep her ownership of the franchise even if her estranged husband can't, the league said that wouldn't be possible.

"Under the NBA constitution, if a controlling owner's interest is terminated by a three-quarter vote, all other team owners' interests are automatically terminated as well," an NBA spokesman said.

"It doesn't matter whether the owners are related as is the case here. These are the rules to which all NBA owners agreed to as a condition of owning their team."

Shelly's attorney, Pierce O'Donnell, responded to the NBA's statement.

"We do not agree with the league's self-serving interpretation of its constitution, its application to Shelly Sterling or its validity under these unique circumstances," O'Donnell said. "We live in a nation of laws. California law and the United States Constitution trump any such interpretation."

Sterling also told ABC News on Sunday that she "would love him to" consider transferring ownership to her if he is forced to sell.

George Costanza meets Donald Sterling in 'Seinfeld' parody (VIDEO)

There's really not a lot to laugh about in this whole Donald Sterling situation — at least not until you mix it in with Seinfeld.

We all remember when George Costanza worked for the Yankees and had his memorable one-sided talks with boss George Steinbrenner on the classic sit-com.

Now, Adult Swim has imagined Costanza as an L.A. Clippers employee on the receiving end of the disgraced owner's racist rant — and it's not only V. Stiviano that Sterling doesn't want hanging around with black people.

Even Georgie Boy looks like he's ready to say, "Can't-stand-ya."

Donald Sterling's ex-mistress shows up at court in wild get-up (PHOTOS)

The ex-girlfriend of Clippers owner Donald Sterling showed up at court Monday looking like she was going to do a little spot weld on her Harley after seeing the judge.

V. Stiviano wore a huge, multicolored visor to hide her face from photographers as she headed to a Los Angeles courthouse. She accessorized the look with Donald Duck T-shirt underneath a red leather motorcycle jacket.

Sterling's former mistress went to the LA County Courthouse in connection with a 2012 drunken-driving arrest during which actor Brandon Mychal Smith was in the passenger seat, TMZ reported.

Stiviano — who legally changed her name from Maria Vanessa Perez in 2010 — was reportedly behind the wheel of a red Ferrari that was a gift from Sterling.

The 31-year-old Stiviano is still on probation for DUI and had to appear in court to prove she had completed a sentence of community service, said TMZ.

A spokeswoman for the LA District Attorney’s Office said she couldn’t confirm that report and had “no idea” why Stiviano was at the courthouse.

A little Michael Jackson, a touch of Lady Gaga. All Hollywood.

Donald Sterling's ex arrived in court wearing a "super visor" http://t.co/DXCqGwDt2b pic.twitter.com/EhWNxTJ79l
— New York Post (@nypost) April 29, 2014

CNN shows Charles Barkley mugshot while he speaks about Donald Sterling (VIDEO)

CNN may want to update their photo image files — especially for some of their own.

The news network had TNT analyst Charles Barkley on the phone to discuss Clippers owner Donald Sterling's alleged racist remarks Saturday night. But as Barkley spoke, CNN used his mugshot from a 2008 DUI arrest on the TV screen, making the former NBA star appear slightly less credible as he gave his thoughts on the controversial owner.

CNN and TNT are both owned by Turner Broadcasting System, which means the only photo CNN could find of a fellow employee was a mugshot — making the error even more embarrassing.

Next time try using Google.

As for the outspoken Barkley's thoughts on Sterling, he said during halftime of the Pacers-Hawks game that this is the first big test for NBA commissioner Adam Silver.

"You can't have this guy making statements like that. He has to suspend him and fine him immediately...We can not have an NBA owner discriminating against a league that's...we're a black league," Barkley said.

Donald Sterling asks the girlfriend: 'How Can We Make This Go Away?': Report

While everyone from NBA players to the President have spoken out about the racist comments attributed to Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers owner reportedly contacted his ex-girlfriend Sunday and, in a far-fetched attempt to quell the controversy, asked her flatly, "How can we make this go away?"

Sources close to Sterling told TMZ that the team owner is keenly aware V. Stiviano is in possession of more than 100 hours of recordings — some of which are extremely damaging to Sterling's reputation. 

It was Stiviano's  Instagram photo (below) of her with NBA legend Magic Johnson that was apparently enough for Sterling to go off on his publicized offensive rant, according to the gossip site.

Stiviano insists that she had nothing to do with the recordings being released to the public.

The sources say Stiviano told Sterling to call her lawyer ... and thereby opened the door to settlement discussions.  It's obvious the incentive for Sterling is to make sure the rest of the tapes never see the light of day. 

TMZ Sports contacted Stiviano's lawyer Mac E. Nehoray ... who had no comment. 

We know Stiviano is extremely upset that the Clippers and Donald Sterling publicly embraced a lawsuit filed by Sterling's wife Shelly against Stivianio, claiming she stole $1.8 million from Donald. 

As for why Stiviano (whom Sterling reportedly showered with the cash and cars) taped so many conversations ... as TMZ Sports reported, she told friends the Clippers owner wanted her to record him and he knew he was being recorded ... partly because he frequently forgot what he said and the tapes refreshed his memory ... at least that's her version of the story, said TMZ.

And on a side note, Stiviano's Instagram page, she constantly tagged photos with "#RandomHouse" and "#Simon&Schuster" ... both large book publishing companies. 

Sources connected with Stiviano tell us ... she is in the process of writing a book "about life" — but she insists it is not about Sterling.

The National Basketball Players Association has demanded Sterling be barred from all playoff games this season. The players also want an accounting of past accusations of racism against Sterling and a guarantee that the league commissioner will work with the association; and assurance the investigation will be conducted swiftly.